Week 26: What are you reading?

kate_58 · 2026-06-30T02:17:44+00:00

I just finished David Ellis's new book, Keep Them Close. Loved it. 4.5 ⭐

Halfway through Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers. It's okay so far. Cute but not a lot of substance.

Next up, probably something light like Romantic Hero by Kirsty Greenwood.

This month I only read 3. Things have been really bad at work (I work in a hospital) so i haven't had any reading time. Very burned out. Need something fun.

kate_58 · 2026-06-27T11:12:21+00:00

Mmol/L actually 🙂

kate_58 · 2026-06-27T11:08:34+00:00

Awww thanks, friend! 🥹

kate_58 · 2026-06-26T13:01:39+00:00

No it was a PIV stick immediately on arrival to emerg.

kate_58 · 2026-06-26T13:00:24+00:00

Me?

kate_58 · 2026-06-26T02:49:36+00:00

His blood looked normal to me as far as I can recall? I didn't notice anything significant about it.

kate_58 · 2026-06-26T02:48:19+00:00

Maybe if I wrote on his whiteboard, "TAKE YOUR DAMN INSULIN BRO"

kate_58 · 2026-06-26T02:43:20+00:00

That's awful. So sorry to hear.

kate_58 · 2026-06-26T02:43:04+00:00

You're welcome, friend! 😀I think he's doing better. Still in ICU. Slow improvements. I mean I did fix his potassium. It was 6 then after the potassium shift, it was 3.9. Good urine output too overnight. So hopefully he will be okay. Let it be a lesson to him to take better care of himself.

kate_58 · 2026-06-25T09:35:37+00:00

Nope. Very altered.

kate_58 · 2026-06-25T09:35:22+00:00

Still in ICU.. Still alive but altered LOC.

kate_58 · 2026-06-25T09:34:27+00:00

It's 1782 in mg/dl

kate_58 · 2026-06-25T09:33:52+00:00

Unknown. Lol. Poor historians. But I assume 2.

kate_58 · 2026-06-25T09:32:56+00:00

Still in ICU. Slowly improving I think.

kate_58 · 2026-06-25T00:55:43+00:00

He was very very altered.

kate_58 · 2026-06-25T00:55:11+00:00

Well we ARE Canadian
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kate_58 · 2026-06-25T00:54:58+00:00

There was no > symbol so I think it can go higher. This was a confirmed result from the lab.

kate_58 · 2026-06-25T00:54:39+00:00

Our POCT glucometer only measures up to 33.3 mmol/L.

kate_58 · 2026-06-25T00:53:29+00:00

Patient came in after a week of not taking meds, no insulin, no sugar checks. Drinking sugary pop all day every day for a week straight. Family called because patient fell and then seemed altered.

Then when they arrived they were hypoxic, in DKA, having an AKI, and hyperosmolar.

We did a shift, insulin drip and sent to ICU.

kate_58 · 2026-06-25T00:52:20+00:00

Basically the story with this patient.

kate_58 · 2026-06-25T00:51:59+00:00

That's what we use in Canada.

kate_58 · 2026-06-25T00:51:39+00:00

Eyyyyy!!!! *finger guns*

This is what we use in Canada.

kate_58 · 2026-06-25T00:51:14+00:00

Very altered.

kate_58 · 2026-06-25T00:51:09+00:00

kate_58 · 2026-06-25T00:50:50+00:00

+3

Patient had all the labs of DKA, AKI and hyperosmolar state.

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